Re: dirty but most simple method by which pkg install will be successful in mingw octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Nov-2007, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

| > I don't understand why this is needed.  As far as I know, Windows
| > should not care whether the directory separator is \ or /.  
| 
| That is not correct.  In windows cmd.exe, file separator is only '\'.
| The following is snapshot of cmd.exe
| *****************************************
| C:\Documents and Settings\Tatsu>cd c:/
| 
| C:\Documents and Settings\Tatsu>cd c:\
| 
| C:\>
| *****************************************
| Only cd:\ is effective but c:/ is not effective.
| 
| In the octave build on mingw, both / and \ are effective.

I was thinking of the internals, not cmd.exe.

But anyway, I don't know how to solve your problem here, except to
encourage you to stop using Windows.  :-)

jwe